who is backing frances haugen?g this past week, got into some of the money behind her. to be clear, there is no indication about anything about this was inauthentic or inorganic. she was working at facebook, she has been clear that she spent a long time preparing to bring documents out of the company, but as soon as she went public she revealed her identity on a 60 minutes episode that was one of the most widely watched episodes in the show�*s history. that's when a lot of people came out of the woodwork to help and support her. so the whole time she's been working with an organisation called whistleblower aid, they said that since going forward with her they have gotten attention from a lot of big donors. and they're now able to pay for a lot of her expenses. and beyond that, pierre omidyar, the founder of ebay has come out and offered a lot of support for her. he is a billionaire, he has spent a lot of recent years bankrolling anti—big tech efforts. he has given millions of dollars overall to advocacy groups and

people like frances haugen are a rare thing in silicon valley.t taken lightly. the company intentionally hides vital information from the public, from the us government and from governments around the world. silicon valley is a notoriously secretive and notoriously litigious place when it comes to employees who want to put their head above the parapet to raise concerns. how did big tech get so big? and one of the reasons it got so big, to be honest, is by exploiting thousands of people who work there. and the way that they have managed to keep that exploitation going is by silencing people who work there, including through incredibly wide and broad non—disclosure agreements. i've honestly almost never seen anything like it. i'm a kind of human rights lawyer who used to bring cases against the cia, and the culture of secrecy and fear at big tech is basically as bad as i used to see in the cia. it means whistle—blowers who want to come forward, like haugen, need to be extremely brave and have extremely deep pockets. non—disclosure and non—disparage

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scott pelley spoke with frances haugen, the up-to-then-anonymous facebook whistleblower. took tens of thousands of pages of internal research with her. >> pelley: misinformation, angry content is enticing to people and keep... >> haugen: very enticing. >> pelley: ...keeps them on the platform. >> haugen: yes. >> stahl: since then, she has testified before the senate and the british parliament. in november, she meets with the european union. more than 18 news organizations, including cbs news, have joined in examining the research, and congress is looking at possible regulations limiting how social media may harm young users. i'm lesley stahl. we'll be back next week with another edition of "60 minutes." previously on the equalizer... (gunshots) i'm the one you call when you can't call 911. what this house needs is trust. so i'm gonna give her mine. maybe she'll do the same. guy i punched wasn't just a lawyer. he was the a.d.a. just as we go to trial, he drops the case. he doesn't want to hurt his conviction record because he may run for office one day. d.a.'s put me on th

so, how did haugen, a product manager, come to have such strong media and pr support?

. >>> facebook whistleblower francis haugen says zuckerberg should step down as chief executive.he new company metawould would be stronger with him in the position. >> i think it is unlikely the company will change if he remains ceo. i hope that he can see that there is so much good he can do in the world and maybe it is a change for someone else to maybe take the reigns. >> haugan leaked thousands of documents and accused the company of putting profit ahead of the public good. >>> female hand ballplayers hav won a challenge off the court. allowing players to wear what it calls short tight pants. norwegian players protested the rule wearing shorts to a match in july. the new dress code goes into effect in january. >> tennis star raffal nadal shows he is a good sport. hitting with a 97-year-old ukrainian man who holds a world record being the oldest tennis player. taking place at the nadal academy in spain. it was a dream come true for the man who has wanted to take on nadal for a very long time. >>> coming up, actress anna leigh ashford stops by to tell us about the new sitcom, b

former facebook project manager frances haugen acknowledge that she has continued concerns.ing ceo mark zuckerberg to step down from his role. she says she doesn't believe the company can make products safer with him as the leader as for facebook's recent re branding switching to the name eta. hogan says that it shows higher ups are just not listening. >> meanwhile, the social media giant will shut down its facial recognition system and delete face prince. they say more than 1 billion people. the company was trying to weigh the positive use cases for the technology against the growing societal concerns, especially as regulators have yet to provide clear rules more than a 3rd of facebook's daily active users have opted to have their face is recognized by the social network's system and videos and photos. facebook already been scaling back its use of facial recognition. they say after introducing it more than a decade ago. >> still ahead, for the second time in a matter of months. reverend jesse jackson has been admitted to the hospital of the civil rights icon a happe the wal

today we are pleased to welcome frances haugen to give evidence to the committee. we are delighted you've been able to make the trip to london and give us evidence in person. and, also, respect the personal decision you have taken to speak out on these matters with all the risks incumbent speaking out against a multi billion dollar corporation. i'd just like to ask you first about

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it was also the week that facebook whistle—blower frances haugen appeared on stage at web summit in portugaltive. she was also critical of the country's rebrand to meta. over and over again, facebook chooses expansion and new areas over sticking the landing on what they've already done. and meta is not the only company with its eyes on the so—called metaverse. microsoft announced sd avatars will come to microsoft teams next year so you don't have to get out of bed or do your hair before a video call. and the game streaming site twitch announced it was branching out with a new section for animal and aquarium live streams. so if you're more into rabbits than rapids or prefer otters to 0verwatch or fish to fortnight, then they got you covered. now, when it comes to reducing our emissions, keeping heat from escaping our homes is really important. and paul carter has something particularly warming to show us. paul. thanks, lara. yes, home insulation is certainly a hot topic at the moment and rising energy bills are also making headlines. but of course, click wouldn't be click if we didn't have a

articles with documents surfaced by former facebook product manager turned whistleblower frances haugenffects instagram has on young girls and their mental health and their self-esteem. the ag is saying we are going to look. into this. . we're going to look into whether meta has been upfront about the effects of its platform on these vulnerable users. caroline: how significant is this? for meta, the list of investigations is relatively long already. naomi: yeah, i mean, i think it is just another point of scrutiny for the company and another topic that ag's are, you know, looking into. look, they had months to go. they had urged facebook to abandon its plans to create instagram kids. it was going to be a sort of conversion of instagram -- version of instagram for young people under the age of 13. they said look, they had serious concerns about privacy. they had concerns about the impact, you know, on kids that this product would have. they urged facebook to drop. facebook eventually did that. they had not gone as far as to initiate a probe. this is a significant action. caroline: the ne

. >> speaking of that, frances haugen, the whistle-blower, i want to play a section from the senate hearingthe wall street journal" was that i believe it's, like, 87% of all the misinformation spending is spent on english and 9% of users are english speakers. seems that that facebook invests more in users that make more money, even though the danger may not be distributed evenly on profitability. >> that is absolutely mind-blowing. it's just staggering to think 87% of spending is being spent on just 9% of users. and the truth is facebook is a huge company. this is not about a lack of resources in a company like facebook. why do you think they are allocating so little attention to languages outside of english? i mean, what is the danger that poses with only 9% of users are getting 87% of the spending on this kind of fact-checking? >> the simple answer they is they haven't been forced or held accountable, right? in germany they passed a law that required 3,000 content moderators be located in germany. i'm not saying we need such a law, but we do absent more accountability. i think the danger

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you know there was this facebook whistleblower francis haugen who is trying, here's what she said toike cigarettes. teenagers don't have good self-regulation. they say explicitly i feel bad when i use instagram, and yet i can't stop. >> i mean, they're addicted basically. they can't stop. it makes them feel worse, yet they can't stop because it lights up whatever that, you know, addiction center is in their brain, so what needs to happen next? >> yes, so, first, people have to understand, this is more than an addiction, addiction is between you and the substance. this is not just addiction. this is a social trap. when my kids entered 6th grade, they said to me, dad, everyone is on instagram can i have an account, and i said no. and that was very hard for my son who felt isolated because of it. the companies have put us parents and our kids in this trap. it's not just that the kids are addicted like to tobacco, it's they have set up a social game in which it's bad for everybody, but if one kid gets off, it's even worse for that kid. we're stuck doing something we don't want to do, and

. >> yeah, you know, during the hearing when facebook's whistle-blower from facebook frances haugen testifiedhough this was a major pivotal turn. i have been following these hearings for quite some time. mark zuckerberg's first hearing in 2018 and testified several times since then, and every moment felt big. the cambridge analytica scandal, russian interference in the election. it is hard to see big change coming from the government side and i think about the metaverse where he started off, you imagine the government trying to regulate certain parts of the metaverse, let alone the whole metaverse. what are they going to regulate? the access on to this idea? it is really hard to say. going back to 9 big tobacco analogy, it took 50 years before the first research emerged that showed cigarettes for harmful for one's health before regulation emerged. it is inevitable but it will take some time. every single communications platform in history has been regulated because they're utilities. but it will take some time. and congress needs to understand the technology fully before and the implications

em: pressure has been escalating since frances haugen, a former employee leaked internal research that suggested that teenagers suffered body issues. 32% of teenage girls say that when they feel bad about their bodies, instagram makes them feel worse. >> privately, facebook researchers, and experts have been bringing -- bringing the alarm -- ringing the alarm for years. em: the investigation is looking into the techniques it uses to attract young people to the app and spend more time using it. instagram saying "these accusations are false and demonstrate a deep misunderstanding of the facts." saying that it introduced parental supervision tools in other ways to protect teenagers. richard blumenthal called on facebook to release all of its internal research. mike: 510 -- 5:10 on a friday. i overlaid the wind so you could see them coming up from the south. that naturally lifts the moisture and condenses it and create sprinkles to a few lights that -- light showers. i checked a few of the rain gauges and we have had up to four hundredths of an inch, which could put a coating on the roads.

today we are pleased to welcome frances haugen to give evidence to the committee. we are delighted you've been able to make the trip to london and give us evidence in person. and, also, respect the personal decision you have taken to speak out on these matters with all the risks incumbent speaking out against a multi billion dollar corporation. i'd just like to ask you first about some of the statistics facebook uses itself to describe its performance. it says it removes what it finds on thepl platform but the documents you've published suggest its ai only actually finds 2% to 3% of hate speech there. t does that mean facebook's transparency report without any context around the numbers are essentially meaningless?s? >> i think it is important to -- there is a pattern of behavior on facebook, they are very good atci dancing with data. if you go and read that transparency report the fraction they're presenting is not total hate speech caught divided by total hate speech that exists which is what you might expect given what they said, the fraction they are actually s

. >> frances haugen testified before united kingdom joint committee about misinformation and extremism on the social media platform. and the harmful effects the profile -- platform snapchat can have on children. this is doing a half hours. >> today we are pleased to welcome frances haugen to give evidence to the committee. we are delighted that you are able to make this trip to london and give answers to us in person, and the personal decision you have taken to speak out and the risk and comment with speaking out against a multibillion dollar corporation. i'd like to ask you first some of this to vista six -- of the statistics they use for their performance it says it removes 97% of hate speech it finds on platform. the documents you have published suggest it's ai only finds two 2.3% -- 3% they hate speech is therapy does not mean facebook transparency report in any context around them are essentially meaningless? >> there is a pattern of behavior at facebook, which is fair very good at dancing data. the fraction they are presenting is not total hate speech caught divided by total hate

facebook when they released one of the frances haugen releases, misinformation is hard to detect if notble. they said it would take them a very long time, something like two years, to actually begin to figure out if they could detect misinformation when it came to vaccine hesitancy. this is something fundamentally they were having a lot of issues with. that is not surprising. having worked in this in previous years and earlier in my career having done natural language processing and large-scale communication processing, that is understanding the funnel meaning of language through computer technology, through automated systems, through algorithms. it is exceedingly difficult. and just as important if you have billions of pieces of content and your content and filters are still the best filters you can get, if they are still the kind of 99.99% effective, you are talking 30,000, 40,000 pieces of information per year. even with the best filters that exist there are still a lot of content that will be released, a lot of misinformation, a lot of false information is going to be released. that

facebook when they released one of the frances haugen releases, misinformation is hard to detect if notmpossible. they said it would take them a very long time, something like two years, to actually begin to figure out if they could detect misinformation when it came to vaccine hesitancy. this is something fundamentally they were having a lot of issues with. that is not surprising. having worked in this in previous years and earlier in my career having done natural language processing and large-scale communication processing, that is understanding the funnel meaning of language through computer technology, through automated systems, through algorithms. it is exceedingly difficult. and just as important if you have billions of pieces of content and your content and filters are still the best filters you can get, if they are still the kind of 99.99% effective, you are talking 30,000, 40,000 pieces of information per year. even with the best filters that exist there are still a lot of content that will be released, a lot of misinformation, a lot of false information is going to be released

our hearing with facebook whistleblower frances haugen, was -- a powerful -- profits above people, especially -- and there is a definite and deafening drumbeat of continuing doubt about facebook. keeping -- and outrage. and have led to increasing calls for accountability. this time is -- accountability to parents and the public accountability to congress. accountability to investors and shareholders, accountability to the securities and exchange commission and other federal agencies. because there is ample credible evidence as we start an investigation here. today we are concerned about continuing to educate the american public and ourselves about how we can face this crisis. what we learned from disclosures and reporting since then is abhorrent. about instagram's algorithms creating a perfect storm, in the words of one of facebook's own researchers. as that person said, it exacerbates downward spirals, harmful to teenagers, feeling hate and violence, prioritizing profits over the people that it hurts. in fact, the algorithms push emotional and provocative content, toxic content that amplifie

our hearing with facebook whistleblower frances haugen was a searing indictment, along with her documents of a powerful, gigantic corporation that puts profits ahead of people, especially our children. there has been a definite and deafening drumbeat of continuing disclosures, about facebook -- they have deepened america's concerns and outrage. and have led to increasing calls for accountability, and there will be accountability. this time is different. accountability to parents and the public, accountability to congress. accountability to investors and shareholders, and accountability to the securities and exchange commission and other federal agencies. because there is ample credible evidence as we start an investigation here. but today, we are concerned about continuing to educate the american public and ourselves about how we can face this crisis. what we learned from her disclosures and reporting since then is repugnant and apparent -- repugnant and abhorrent about instagram's algorithms creating a perfect storm, in the words of one of facebook's own researchers. as that person said,

our hearing with the facebook whistle-blower frances haugen was a searing indictment with the gigantic corporation that puts profits ahead of people, specially our children any there has been a definite and deafening drumbeat of continuing disclosures about facebook. they have deepened america's concern and outrage and have led to increasing calls for accountability and there will be accountability. this time it's different. accountability with the parents and to congress, accountability to congress and accountability to investors and shareholders and accountability to the securities and exchange commission and other federal agencies because there is ample, credible evidence to start an investigation there, but today we are concerned about continuing to educate ourselves about how we can face this crisis. what we learned from miss haugen's disclosures and reporting since then is absolutely repugnant and abhorrent about instagram algorithms creeing facebook's own researchers as that person said, it xaser bays downward spiral and harmful to teens that fuel aid and violence and prioritize

francis haugen showed us what's behind facebook. she is an sec whistleblower and i hope you give her disclosure for consideration given the fact that she will probably face lawsuits from facebook. you exercise tremendous power particularly over bond rating agencies, the financial accounting standards board, the two most powerful almost completely unknown agencies in our society. investor protection is notthe guys, it is your guide . >> now recognizing the gentleman from michigan mister rising up for one minute. >> thank you chair and mister gensler, congratulations on your new twitter account. it appears you were watching the olympics games this summer because in one of your tweets you like and adding company disclosure requirements to the olympics adding new sporting events responding to the desires of fans. my problem with this analogy is you seem to think the sbc power and expertise in disclosure is as unlimited as the ioc's power over the games but i disagree. the cause the sbc generally doesn't regulate disclosure about financi

frances haugen showed us what's behind facebook. she is an s.e.c.stleblower, and i hope that you give her disclosures full consideration, given the fact that she will probably face lawsuits from facebook. you exercised tremendous power, but particularly over bond rating agencies and the financial accounting standards board, the two most powerful, almost completely unknown agencies in our society. and investor protection is not a guise, it is your guide. >> i now recognize the gentleman from michigan, for one minute. >> congratulations on your new twitter account. it appears that you, and a lot of folks like myself were watching the olympics games this summer. in one of your tweets you likened adding public company disclosures requirements to the olympics, to new sporting events responding to fans. my problem is you seem to think that the s.e.c. power and expertise in disclosure is unlimited as the ioc's power over the games. i disagree. just because s.e.c. generally does a solid job regulating disclosure, doesn't mean it's well qualified to regulate